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The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub is working with the Shark Bay World Heritage Area Advisory Committee to provide climate change information to inform the ongoing management of this unique region.

A small pilot study looking at how local councils access and use climate change science in planning and decision making has identified the need for a simple guideline to help make the most of existing climate change information.

Realistically simulating rainfall, especially tropical rainfall, remains a significant challenge for national and international researchers when developing climate models. Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub researchers now have an improved understanding of how convection schemes within ACCESS work to improve the skill of our climate models in simulating tropical rainfall.

The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub’s PhD Affiliate Initiative provides opportunities for post-graduate students and early career researchers to engage with stakeholders and other researchers while developing science and stakeholder engagement skills. One of these opportunities was a science communicating workshop which explained the value of stakeholder engagement.

Hub researchers are investigating the processes that influence rainfall in northern Australia, so we can better understand how they are changing and what this means for the timing and amount of rainfall.

Hub researchers found that a major mangrove dieback in the Gulf of Carpentaria in late 2015 was most likely a result of a combination of conditions that were unprecedented since at least 1971, and linked to the strong El Niño of 2015/16.

‘No room for complacency’ – that’s the big message from the latest Global Carbon Budget, which reports global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels and industry are on track to grow by 2% in 2017, reaching a new record high of 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.